Lawmakers mark 100 days since Khashoggi’s death with press freedom event

Lawmakers gathered Thursday to mark 100 days since the disappearance of slain Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi and underscore the important of the freedom of the press.

Democrats and Republicans delivered remarks at a press freedom event at the Capitol, decrying Khashoggi’s murder and calling for accountability. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the journalist’s killing “an atrocity and an affront to humanity.”…